Send ideas to calendar@montereycountynow.com HOT PICKS Saturday, Dec. 7 Christmas craft For Christmas and craft lovers who love making their own gifts or home decorations, the Carmel Valley Lodge is offering its first annual Christmas Tree Mosaic Class—hopefully the first of many to come. Didier Guedj, a local tile artisan, leads participants in making their own Christmas tree mosaic. Bring meaningful objects to incorporate into your tree if you wish; it can be a special object or something to add color and texture, such as stones, ceramic or glass pieces. All supplies are included, plus a light supper and beverages. [CJ] 4-7pm Saturday, Dec. 7. Carmel Valley Lodge, 8 Ford Road, Carmel Valley. $80. 659-2261, valleylodge.com. Dickens Holiday The Monterey Peninsula Dickens Fellowship meets for its annual Victorian Christmas Party. It is mostly directed to members, but it is also open to friends and family. Guests play the Victorian parlor game “The Minister’s Cat.” Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding are served, as well as plum pudding and hard sauce. The group has already released a busy 2025 schedule, with regular meetings and Dickens reading sessions. It’s a perfect time to recall Charles Dickens and his iconic A Christmas Carol, and get in the mood for a year of Dickens appreciation. [AP] 6pm Saturday, Dec. 7. 514 Park St., Pacific Grove. Free. 372-7625, montereypeninsuladickensfellowship.org. Everybody Loves Ralph As a comic, you know you’ve hit the big time when you get a Netflix special, and that’s where Ralph Barbosa is right now. He may not be a household name—yet. Barbosa’s Comedy Central standup on YouTube has nearly 6 million views, and another video of his standup has more than 6 million. So yeah, he’s a big deal, and the winner of the 2021 New York Latino Film Festival Stand-Up competition, and in 2019, was voted Funniest Comic in Texas. The Dallas native swings into Monterey on his nationwide tour to spread laughter and joy. [DS] 6:45pm Saturday, Dec. 7. Golden State Theatre, 417 Alvarado St., Monterey. $54-$77. goldenstatetheatre.com. A Night of Jazz Palenke Arts’ Latin Jazz Combo has only been in existence for less than a decade, but its repertoire is expansive beyond its years. It is steeped in Latin jazz traditions, featuring works by such legends as Chucho Valdes, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo and Poncho Sánchez. They are directed by another master of the craft, Paul Contos, who is the director of the SF Jazz Honor Ensemble and who worked previously as education director at Monterey Jazz Festival for over 30 years. The combo will be joined by Afro-Caribbean jazz vocalist Christelle Durandy, who has been featured on projects too numerous to list here. Come see the present and future of jazz. [EC] 7-8:30pm Saturday, Dec. 7. Palenke Arts (inside MLK School), 1713 Broadway Ave., Seaside. $20. palenkearts.com. Sunday, Dec. 8 Gingerbreaders Unite Sometimes it feels like building a gingerbread house requires a degree in architecture. You need to cut your walls and flooring into precise measurements in order to make sure they’ll fit together and be structurally sound. But once the gingerbread hits the oven, all bets are off. Thankfully, MY Museum lets you skip the hassle and go straight to the fun part. The museum’s Gingerbread Extravaganza provides children with a blank house and plenty of candy to decorate it with—expect icing, candy canes, gumdrops and more. It’s a perfect way to spur little ones’ creativity, and maybe even encourage them to pursue a degree in architecture so they can build both gingerbread and full-sized houses as adults. [EC] 9-10:30am Sunday, Dec. 8. MY Museum, 425 Washington St., Monterey. $40 per child/ museum members; $45 per child/ non-members; price includes one adult chaperone. 649-6444, mymuseum.org. Boats Get Lit In a former era, the boats in Monterey harbor weren’t almost exclusively for hobbyists—they, like their owners, went to work every day. That history forged the city’s identity, and the 33rd annual lighted boat parade—a holiday tradition—hearkens back to that bygone era while creating a visual spectacle aimed to dazzle. The parade coincides with the month-long eighth annual Christman on the Wharf celebration, a chance for locals to get down to the waterfront at a time it’s not overrun by tourists—so long as the weather cooperates. This event will be rescheduled to Dec. 15 if it doesn’t. [DS] 5:30pm-7:30pm Sunday, Dec. 8. Fisherman’s Wharf, Monterey. Free. 238-0777, info@montereywharf.com. Tuesday, Dec. 10 All Inn Pacific Grove’s leading industry is hospitality, which generally means serving visitors from out of town. But in the giving holiday spirit, proprietors of various hotels and inns open up their grounds to locals for this annual tradition, inviting people in for refreshments, music and other entertainment, plus an opportunity to mingle and see the interior of these visitor-serving buildings, decked out for the holidays. Holiday at the Inns is a self-guided walking tour with stops at Gosby House, Green Gables Inn, Phoebe Hearst Social Hall (at Asilomar Conference Grounds) and more. Check in for tickets and a lanyard with a map at the P.G. Chamber of Commerce to start off the festivities. [SR] 5-9pm Tuesday, Dec. 10. Start at Chamber of Commerce, 584 Central Ave., Pacific Grove. $30. 373-3304, pacificgrove.org. Love for Language Once a month, Friends of Hopkins—an organization dedicated to supporting the teaching and research programs at Hopkins Marine Station—hosts a free lecture series at the Izzie Abbott Boatworks Auditorium. This month, award-winning Chicana poet Rachelle Escamilla, a Central Coast native and Monterey County’s current Poet Laureate, shares her journey through language and how her family’s story sparked her love of poetry. Escamilla, the author of three poetry collections, will discuss family stories from the 1960s farmworker movement and how they inspired her activism. [KR] 7-8:15pm Tuesday, Dec. 10. Hopkins Marina Station, 120 Ocean View Blvd., Pacific Grove. Free. 655-6200, hopkinsmarinestation.stanford.edu. Hot Picks by Sloan Campi, Erik Chalhoub, Dave Faries, Celia Jiménez, Pam Marino, Agata Pope˛da, Katie Rodriguez, Sara Rubin and David Schmalz. Monterey Peninsula College Choir is back with their holiday concert. Start the season off right with lovingly rehearsed holiday songs by this community choir. Enrique Montano Comedian Ralph Barbosa is Netflix special-ready. You can also see him in the Golden State Theatre in Monterey this week. Courtesy of Monterey Peninsula Voices 36 MONTEREY COUNTY WEEKLY december 5-11, 2024 www.montereycountynow.com
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